Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-Pakistani-politician, is set to become Pakistan's next prime minister.
In the Islamic world, you rarely find female Sufi mystics. Bushra Maneka, a 39-year-old divorcee, is a rare mystic and faith healer whom, among other such mystics, Imran Kh...

Militant students of Jamia Hafsa madrassa in Islamabad (Image courtesy: The Friday Times).
Given below are excerpts from an article written by noted Pakistani columnist Kamila Hayat that examines the link between religious extremism and engineering disciplines, which promote...

Introduction
On January 16, 2018, the government of Pakistan unveiled a fatwa ("Islamic decree"), which was described as the Pakistani "nation's unanimous declaration to counter extremism and end terrorism."[1] Media reports said that the fatwa was seconded by more than 1,...

In its February 2, 2018 issue, the Pakistani Urdu daily Roznama Jasarat published an article examining the status of pastimes and entertainment in Islam. The article was written by Shah Turab-ul-Haq Qadri, who cited numerous Islamic sources to argue that Prophet Muhammad perm...

The cover page of the book Yehud Ki Chalees Bimariyan ("Forty Diseases Of The Jews").
This is a book review of Yehud Ki Chalees Bimariyan ("Forty Diseases Of The Jews"), authored by Maulana Masood Azhar, the emir of Pakistani jihadi organization Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), and p...

In India, the dominant image of a Muslim woman, both in the minds of Muslims and non-Muslims, is the one fostered by Islamic clerics. Much like how images of gods and goddesses help Hindus to mentally access the spiritual world, stereotypes are concepts that aid humans' abili...

Jamida is the general secretary of an Islamic organization.
On January 26, 2018, Indian Muslim woman Jamida led the weekly Friday prayers at a mosque in the predominantly orthodox Muslim town of Malappuram in the southern Indian state of Kerala. While similar attempts by Mus...

Taslima Nasreen at a bookstore recently (image courtesy: Twitter.com/TaslimaNasreen).
In a recent article, internationally known Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen examined the role of fatwas (Islamic decrees) in Muslim societies. Nasreen, who now lives in exile in India due...

Statement Of Concerns And Objectives By Tufail Ahmad, Senior Fellow At MEMRI
Introduction
Under its Reform In The Muslim World Project, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is publishing this draft of the Muslim Family Reforms Bill, 2018 to raise awareness a...

The frontpage of Roznama Urdu Times, December 23, 2017, reads: "Jerusalem – protest by more than 10 million people across India."
Introduction
In recent decades, India has not seen protests by Islamic organizations, not even when Islamic countries such as neighboring Paki...

The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here.
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), an Islamic militant group fighting for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar (previo...

The caption reads: "When Hadiya was brought from Kerala to Delhi and presented before the Supreme Court... Hadiya's religious dignity was worth seeing." (Image: Urdu.News18.com)
Introduction
In India and other countries, there exists a societal phenomenon: In cases of int...

In Bristol, Rana Basharat Ali Khan, a senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N for UK), joined a protest rally against the U.S. (Image: Roznama Ausaf, December 12, 2017.)
On December 6, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the U.S.'s recognition of Jerusalem as ...

On December 6, U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and announced that the U.S. Embassy will be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. After the announcement, Roznama Ausaf, an Urdu daily published from London, published several editorials on the is...

Protestors in Pakistan burn Israeli and American flags in Bahawalpur (left), and an effigy of Donald Trump in Lahore (right).
On December 6, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and also that the U.S. Embassy...

On December 6, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, paving the way for the movement of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. After his announcement of the decision, protests erupted in Pakistan. Given below are images of protests against Ameri...

Islamic clerics who addressed the event in Walthamstow, East London, on November 26, 2017.
Introduction
Will the UK become another Pakistan? The definitive answer is yes. The only question is when. In November of 2017, Islamists from the Sufi school of Islam laid siege t...

After U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, on December 6, 2017, Mobarak Haidar (above), renowned Pakistani historian and author of multiple books, wrote the following on his Facebook page:[1]
"Jerusalem And Muslim Claims
"The Holy K...

A screenshot of the report in Roznama Inquilab on November 28, 2017.
A three-day conference was held in Mumbai, November 25-27, 2017, on the topic of Islamic shari'a, by the Islamic Fiqh Academy (IFA), a leading religious institute founded in New Delhi in 1988 by the late Is...

Protestors besieging Islamabad.
Beginning in early November 2017, Islamic clerics in Pakistan besieged the capital city of Islamabad for three weeks, in an act of muscle-flexing aimed at undermining the authority of the Pakistani state, and reinforcing a dangerous ...

OIC Secretary General Dr. Al-Othaimeen speaks at the exhibition (image courtesy: OIC-oci.org.)
On November 9, 2017, a photo exhibition-cum-seminar was organized jointly by the Pakistani Consulate and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at the OIC Secretariat in the...

The website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (english.khamenei.ir) prominently posted Khamenei's Kashmir statement.
On November 5, Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa arrived in Tehran on a three-day official visit. This is the first timea Pakistani army chief h...

Hotel in Riyadh where princes are reportedly being held (image courtesy: Roznama Ummat.)
Following the early November arrests of 11 Saudi princes – among them billionaire investor Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, four ministers, and dozens of former ministers, concern was express...

A screenshot of the news that appeared in Roznama Urdu Times.
On October 29, 2017, a day-long conference called Indo-Arab Solidarity Day was held in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad by the Indo-Arab League, a non-governmental organization, to express solidarity with the...

Captain Muhammad Safdar addresses the National Assembly on October 10, 2017.
Speaking in the National Assembly of Pakistan on October 10, 2017, Pakistani lawmaker Capt. (ret.) Muhammad Safdar delivered a speech against Ahmadi Muslims. Pakistan declared the Ahmadi Muslim comm...

On October 12, 2017, American citizen Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle, along with their three children, were rescued from Taliban captivity in a manner that has shed light on the toxic nature of U.S.-Pakistan relations. The U.S.-Canadian couple were capt...

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Sirajul Haq addresses a Khatm-e-Nabuwwat conference in Peshawar.
Introduction
During September-October 2017, a major controversy led by Islamic clerics in Pakistan arose after a law was amended to reform the country's elections. At issue was Form-A,...

The sword is part of the Islamic consciousness, as shown in the Saudi flag.
Following are excerpts from an article on the life of Abu Bakr, the first caliph of Islam, who reigned from 632 to 634 CE. The article was published by Jasarat.com, the website of Jamaat-e-Islami Pak...

Rana Sanaullah is law minister of Punjab province.
In 1974, Pakistan passed a law classifying Ahmadi Muslims as non-Muslims. Before and after 1974, Islamic clerics have led campaigns against Ahmadi Muslims, describing them as non-Muslims for allegedly not believing in Khatm-...

The South Asian Sufi Conference was held in the tourist city of Jaipur, India.
Tufail Ahmad, senior fellow for the MEMRI Islamism and Counter-Radicalization Initiative, addressed the South Asian Sufi Festival, held on October 6-9, 2017 in Jaipur, also known as India's Pink C...

The article in Roznama Sangam of Patna, India.
Of all Islamist movements in present times, a movement led by Islamic clerics and known as Khatm-e-Nabuwwat has been growing every day but remains unscrutinized by the international media due to lack of information. Khatm-e-Nabu...

A snapshot of the editorial in Roznama Mahasib.
Following are excerpts from an editorial in the Pakistani Urdu daily Roznama Mahasib:
"Bob Corker, of the ruling Republican party of America and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has very openly criticized th...

Former Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Munir Akram (image courtesy Iisd.org).
In an August 21, 2017 speech, President Donald Trump announced a new U.S. strategy on Afghanistan.[1] He criticized Pakistan for sheltering jihadi terror groups, stating:...

Indian cleric Salman Al-Husain Al-Nadwi was deported from Oman to Qatar following a September 19 lecture in which he attacked the Saudi king and leading Saudi religious scholars for supporting U.S. President Trump. The attack was triggered by an earlier statement by the imam of t...

Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-Pakistani-politician, is set to become Pakistan's next prime minister.
In the Islamic world, you rarely find female Sufi mystics. Bushra Maneka, a 39-year-old divorcee, is a rare mystic and faith healer whom, among other such mystics, Imran Kh...

Militant students of Jamia Hafsa madrassa in Islamabad (Image courtesy: The Friday Times).
Given below are excerpts from an article written by noted Pakistani columnist Kamila Hayat that examines the link between religious extremism and engineering disciplines, which promote...

In India, the dominant image of a Muslim woman, both in the minds of Muslims and non-Muslims, is the one fostered by Islamic clerics. Much like how images of gods and goddesses help Hindus to mentally access the spiritual world, stereotypes are concepts that aid humans' abili...

Jamida is the general secretary of an Islamic organization.
On January 26, 2018, Indian Muslim woman Jamida led the weekly Friday prayers at a mosque in the predominantly orthodox Muslim town of Malappuram in the southern Indian state of Kerala. While similar attempts by Mus...

The frontpage of Roznama Urdu Times, December 23, 2017, reads: "Jerusalem – protest by more than 10 million people across India."
Introduction
In recent decades, India has not seen protests by Islamic organizations, not even when Islamic countries such as neighboring Paki...

In Bristol, Rana Basharat Ali Khan, a senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N for UK), joined a protest rally against the U.S. (Image: Roznama Ausaf, December 12, 2017.)
On December 6, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the U.S.'s recognition of Jerusalem as ...

On December 6, U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and announced that the U.S. Embassy will be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. After the announcement, Roznama Ausaf, an Urdu daily published from London, published several editorials on the is...

Protestors in Pakistan burn Israeli and American flags in Bahawalpur (left), and an effigy of Donald Trump in Lahore (right).
On December 6, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and also that the U.S. Embassy...

On December 6, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, paving the way for the movement of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. After his announcement of the decision, protests erupted in Pakistan. Given below are images of protests against Ameri...

After U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, on December 6, 2017, Mobarak Haidar (above), renowned Pakistani historian and author of multiple books, wrote the following on his Facebook page:[1]
"Jerusalem And Muslim Claims
"The Holy K...

A screenshot of the report in Roznama Inquilab on November 28, 2017.
A three-day conference was held in Mumbai, November 25-27, 2017, on the topic of Islamic shari'a, by the Islamic Fiqh Academy (IFA), a leading religious institute founded in New Delhi in 1988 by the late Is...

Protestors besieging Islamabad.
Beginning in early November 2017, Islamic clerics in Pakistan besieged the capital city of Islamabad for three weeks, in an act of muscle-flexing aimed at undermining the authority of the Pakistani state, and reinforcing a dangerous ...

OIC Secretary General Dr. Al-Othaimeen speaks at the exhibition (image courtesy: OIC-oci.org.)
On November 9, 2017, a photo exhibition-cum-seminar was organized jointly by the Pakistani Consulate and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at the OIC Secretariat in the...

The website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (english.khamenei.ir) prominently posted Khamenei's Kashmir statement.
On November 5, Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa arrived in Tehran on a three-day official visit. This is the first timea Pakistani army chief h...

Hotel in Riyadh where princes are reportedly being held (image courtesy: Roznama Ummat.)
Following the early November arrests of 11 Saudi princes – among them billionaire investor Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, four ministers, and dozens of former ministers, concern was express...

A screenshot of the news that appeared in Roznama Urdu Times.
On October 29, 2017, a day-long conference called Indo-Arab Solidarity Day was held in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad by the Indo-Arab League, a non-governmental organization, to express solidarity with the...

Captain Muhammad Safdar addresses the National Assembly on October 10, 2017.
Speaking in the National Assembly of Pakistan on October 10, 2017, Pakistani lawmaker Capt. (ret.) Muhammad Safdar delivered a speech against Ahmadi Muslims. Pakistan declared the Ahmadi Muslim comm...

On October 12, 2017, American citizen Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle, along with their three children, were rescued from Taliban captivity in a manner that has shed light on the toxic nature of U.S.-Pakistan relations. The U.S.-Canadian couple were capt...

Rana Sanaullah is law minister of Punjab province.
In 1974, Pakistan passed a law classifying Ahmadi Muslims as non-Muslims. Before and after 1974, Islamic clerics have led campaigns against Ahmadi Muslims, describing them as non-Muslims for allegedly not believing in Khatm-...

The article in Roznama Sangam of Patna, India.
Of all Islamist movements in present times, a movement led by Islamic clerics and known as Khatm-e-Nabuwwat has been growing every day but remains unscrutinized by the international media due to lack of information. Khatm-e-Nabu...

A snapshot of the editorial in Roznama Mahasib.
Following are excerpts from an editorial in the Pakistani Urdu daily Roznama Mahasib:
"Bob Corker, of the ruling Republican party of America and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has very openly criticized th...

Former Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Munir Akram (image courtesy Iisd.org).
In an August 21, 2017 speech, President Donald Trump announced a new U.S. strategy on Afghanistan.[1] He criticized Pakistan for sheltering jihadi terror groups, stating:...

On the evening of July 4, 2016, one day before Eid-ul-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, a suicide bomber carried out an attack outside the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia. The attack shocked the Muslim world because the Prophet's Mosque...

Following the July 15-16 failed military coup in
Turkey, Pakistani writer Abdul Qader Hassan wrote an article shedding light on
the downfall of the Ottoman Caliphate in the early 1920s. In the piece, Hassan also
noted that the Ottoman Caliph Sultan Suleiman (who ruled from 1520 t...

On February 5, 2016, the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind (JUH, or
the Organization of Indian Islamic Scholars) attorney Ejaz Maqbool told the
Supreme Court of India that since Muslim personal laws in India originate from
the Koran, it cannot be questioned by the SC. The JUH, founded in 1919,...

In Bijnor town, Indian cleric offers 5.1 million
rupees for anyone who beheads Kamlesh Tiwari
On December 3, 2015 police in the northern Indian city
of Lucknow arrested Kamlesh Tiwari, a man associated with the Hindu Mahasabha,
a Hindu interest organization. Ajay Kumar, a senior...

In recent articles, Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, an internationally
renowned Islamic cleric from India, has argued that the Islamic State (ISIS) was
created by Jews, Christians, Western powers, and Islam's enemies.
A lengthy piece titled "ISIS: You Are such [A Friend] Who ...

A screen shot of the
Roznama Ummat editorial
Following
the November 13, 2015 coordinated terror attacks in Paris, the leading
Pakistani Urdu daily Roznama Ummat published, on November 20, an editorial titled
"Daesh [the Islamic State, i.e. ISIS] Can Never Be An Organization Of
...

On January 31, the
Indian Islamist group All India Thowheed Jamaat (AITJ) held an "Anti-Shirk
[i.e. polytheism] Conference" in the southern city of Tiruchy in Tamil
Nadu state. The conference, calling for the abolition of all forms of shirk,
was organized under the auspices of AI...

Young people celebrate Valentine's Day in Islamabad
(image: Roznama Express, February 15, 2016)
On February 13, 2016, Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain condemned Valentine's
Day, stating: "Valentine's Day is part of the Western culture. There is no
room for it to be celebrate...

While global attention is focused on the
Pakistan-Afghanistan region as the breeding ground of South Asian jihad, it is
actually New Delhi's Abul Fazl Enclave area that has emerged as the global clearinghouse
of jihadi literature in Arabic, Urdu, English and Hindi.
Since 9/11, ...

To
mark India's Republic Day, MEMRI South Asia Studies Project director Tufail
Ahmad wrote an article titled "We the People of India." The article
appeared in Hindi in the Dainik Jagran daily on January 26, 2016, and in
English on the Satyavijayi website.
The following is the a...

On
January 8, 2016, MEMRI South Asia Studies Project Director Tufail Ahmad
published an article on the Indiafacts website discussing India's need to
combat its "known enemy" Pakistan, instead of letting the
"Pakistan Lobby of Delhi" and the U.S. State Department dictate its
polic...

In a January 2, 2016 article on the New Age Islam website titled "Mehdi Hasan - Your Islamism Is Truly A State Of Your Mind," MEMRI South Asia Studies Project director Tufail Ahmad writes about the Al-Jazeera English television host and former political director of The Huffington...

In an article published
December 9, 2015 by the India Facts website, titled "It Is
Time Faisal Devji Is Fired By The Oxford University," MEMRI South
Asia Studies Project director Tufail Ahmad discusses a piece in The Hindu by
Oxford University professor Faisal Devji criticizing n...

In the year 2008, a historic opportunity for a political settlement with the pro-independence Baluchi nationalists in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan was lost, undermined by the Pakistani military which is engaged in a bloody struggle to crush a four-year-old armed insurgen...

Introduction On February 5, 2009, religious and jihadist organizations, political parties and the Pakistani government marked Kashmir Solidarity Day, in support of the Kashmiri movement for independence from India. A human chain was formed to mark the occasion, at the Kohala Bri...

The November 2008 Mumbai attacks initially triggered little reaction in the Arab and Muslim media. A few days later, in response to this silence, articles by Arab columnists began to appear, calling on the Arabs and Muslims to take a firm stand against the attacks, so that the wo...

Introduction At a time when international attention is focused on the Israeli offensive in Gaza, Islamic militant groups in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indian Kashmir have stepped up their activities. In Pakistan's tribal region, Taliban militants have strengthened their control; ...

Introduction In the wake of the 11/26 Mumbai terror attacks, there is a growing fear in Pakistan that the Indian Air Force may attack militant hideouts inside Pakistan, in a manner similar to the U.S. missile attacks on Taliban and Al-Qaeda safe havens within Pakistan’s tribal d...

Introduction In early July, Shi'ite scholars from across the country held a conference in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest commercial city. The conference dealt with the recent wave of violence against Shi'ite Muslims in the town of Parachinar, which is the administrative center of th...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are among the primary targets of the mujahideen, since these devices are used to monitor their activities, and thus limit their ability to move and operate in the field. According to their communiques, the mujahideen have downed at least 19 UAVs in...

Introduction During the summer of 2008, a small land dispute in India's Jammu and Kashmir state snowballed into a popular Kashmiri movement for independence from India, with the secessionist movement's dominant leadership cultivating the ground for Islamic rule and steering the ...

Introduction On October 17, 2008, Muslims in India and Pakistan celebrate the 191st birthday of the great Indian reformer Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898). However, few understand the meaning of Islamic reform as he did. The following report was originally published by the libera...

Introduction On June 28, 2008, the Pakistani government ordered a military operation against Islamist fighters in the tribal district of Khyber Agency, which borders on the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The next day, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said at a hu...

Introduction On May 13, 2008, the Indian city of Jaipur, a popular tourist destination, was rocked by a series of explosions. Nine bombs attached to bicycles exploded in five different locations within 12 minutes, killing over 60 people and wounding 200 others. Immediately after ...

In recent years, the Pakistani music scene has been exploring and developing new genres of sound. Rock music has become very popular among the younger generation in Pakistan and across the entire South Asia region. Pakistani rock bands manage to fuse Western rock with Eastern me...

During the first 10 days of the Shia holy month of Muharram, a series of religious programs were organized in different cities of the United Kingdom. These meetings are traditionally held by Shia Muslims in remembrance of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, and his f...

The following report is the first from MEMRI's Urdu Media Project. The focus of this project is on translations from open-source Urdu language newspapers and websites. The primary sources will be material from Pakistan and its surrounding countries as well as media outlets and we...

Watching the US expanding its influence in the region, Iran is focusing on a political alternative to America's "war on terrorism." Iranian efforts are aimed at resolving the Afghanistan crisis through the framework of the UN's regional apparatus, the Six-Plus-Two Group[1], so th...

IntroductionDespite Iran's hostility towards the Taliban regime, its leaders sharply reject America's "war on terrorism" in Afghanistan. Both conservatives and reformists expressed fears that America's motives were not to fight terrorism, but to establish a presence in Central As...

Indian cleric Salman Al-Husain Al-Nadwi was deported from Oman to Qatar following a September 19 lecture in which he attacked the Saudi king and leading Saudi religious scholars for supporting U.S. President Trump. The attack was triggered by an earlier statement by the imam of t...

Lahor Shah, an Afghan who defected from the ranks of ISIS-Khorasan, spoke to Alaan TV, explaining why he had joined ISIS and why he had defected. They are "destroying our country and our lives," he said, recalling that in the six months during which he was with ISIS, he had "witn...

In an October 9 Friday sermon delivered at the Al-Abrar Mosque in Rafah, the Gaza Strip, Sheikh Muhammad Sallah "Abu Rajab" brandished a knife, calling upon his brothers in the West Bank: "Stab!" "Oh young men of the West Bank: Attack in threes and fours," he said, and "cut them ...

Mayadeen TV recently reported on Uyghurs fighting alongside ISIS and Jabhat Al-Nusra in Syria. A Syrian village was being transformed into "a settlement for hundreds of Uyghur Turkistani families who are fleeing China," according to the TV report, which aired on September 3, 2015...

In an Egyptian TV interview, cleric Muhammad Abdallah Nasr, who is known as "Sheik Mizo," said that sex between single people "should be considered an abomination," but was not fornication. He was speaking on Al-Kahera Wal-Nas TV on July 1, 2015.
Following are excerpts:
Intervi...

Lyrics: "Come, my friend, the Khilafah has been established now
"Happiness and joy is for the people of faith today.
"We praise Allah who granted us a manifest victory,
"glory and honor. How long have we been waiting for this day.
"The Qur'an rules on every hand-span...

Following are excerpts from a public address delivered by Asmatullah Muawiya, the Emir of JUnood-e-Hafsa and Tehreek-e-Taliban Punjab, which was posted on the Internet on September 2013: Asmatullah Muawiya: Oh Lord, we cannot bear to see these scenes – your mosques being deserte...

Following are excerpts from a TV debate on women driving in Saudi Arabia which aired on Decision Makers TV on October 21, 2013: Interviewer: What made you drive a car in Saudi Arabia on several occasions? Was it part of the October 26 women driving campaign, or was it because of...

Following are excerpts from a TV report on polio in Pakistan, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on March 14, 2012 .
Reporter : This girl is one of the victims of polio in Pakistan. For more than a decade, vaccination teams were forbidden from entering various regions, especially ...

Following are excerpts from a public address delivered by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, at a Lahore Rally, which was posted on the Internet on December 18, 2011:
Hafiz Muhammad S...

Following are excerpts from a video-clip featuring Maulana Fazluallah, Leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, which was posted on the Internet in December 2011.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan member: You are aware of how Tehrik-i-Taliban from the Malakand province… All prai...

Following are excerpts from an interview with Saudi journalist and TV host Nadin Al-Badir, which aired on Dream2 TV on January 10, 2012: Nadin Al-Badir: 28-year-old Hassan Nabil Hmeid from Abha was harassed [by the religious police] because he grew his hair long. At the end o...

Following are excerpts from a report on female boxers in Afghanistan, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on January 6, 2012:
Reporter: These girls undergo intensive training in this modestly equipped gym. The broken mirrors, dusty floors, and threats from the Taliban have ...

Following is the song "Burka Woman" by Pakistani comedian Saad Haroon, which was posted on the Internet on December 25, 2010:
Burka woman, in your black sheet,
burka woman, with your sexy feet,
burka woman…
My love for you – it grows,
every time I s...

Following are excerpts from an interview with Baluch Khan, a rebel leader in Baluchistan, Pakistan, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 21, 2011: Baluch Khan: Our goal is to obtain independence for Baluchistan, to get rid of the control of the Punjabis, and to achieve a li...

Following are excerpts from an interview with Pakistani actress Veena Malik, who participated on the "Big Boss" show – the Indian version of the "Big Brother" show. The interview aired on Express News TV on January 21, 2011. Interviewer: There is an allegation against you, mad...

The following are excerpts from a TV report on Kuwaiti cleric Khaled Al-Huseinan, who joined Al-Qaeda. The program aired on Al-Arabiya TV on October 29, 2010.
Reporter: Khaled Al-Huseinan served as an imam and a preacher in several mosques of the Kuwaiti Ministry of...

Following are excerpts from several exclusive Al-Jazeera TV reports on the Taliban, which aired in July and August, 2010: August 11, 2010: Dhiya Al-Rahman: These are your weapons, oh Americans. We will use them to kill you. We will open fire on your heads. No matter what you...

Following are excerpts from a report on Juma'at-ud-Da'wah in Kashmir, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on July 16, 2010: Reporter: The Kashmiri public is pessimistic about the talks being held by the Indian delegation in Pakistan. Hundreds of meetings have been held in recent deca...

div> Following are excerpts from excerpts from an interview with Abdul Salam Zaeef, former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on July 14, 2010. Abdul Salam Zaeef: Personally, I believe that the 9/11 incident was a conspiracy against the Muslims, and es...

Following are excerpts from a videotape featuring Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on July 14, 2010. In the videotape, Shahzad speaks in English.
Faisal Shahzad: We should go forth and fight the disbelievers.
[...]
...

Following is the transcript of an address delivered by American Al-Qaeda operative Adam Gadahn, posted on the Internet on June 20, 2010. This is the original transcript, posted along with the video. All praise is due to Allah, Creator of the heavens and the earth, and prayers ...

Following is an Al-Jazeera TV report on a women’s school in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, which aired on May 24, 2010. Reporter: A woman who decides to either study or teach in Kandahar must keep it a secret, because her life depends on this. They must wear the chador to avo...

Following are excerpts from an Al-Jazeera TV report on the Taliban in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which aired on May 23, 2010. Reporter: The route to the Panjwai region is rough, just like the fate of its inhabitants has been for many years. There is no trace here of the Kabul regim...

Following is an excerpt from an Al-Jazeera TV report on the Taliban in Afghanistan, which aired on May 13, 2010. Reporter: These are the remains of a US-made Chinook helicopter. The US forces in Afghanistan admitted that it had been hit last Tuesday, saying that it was forced ...

Following is a transcript of a video featuring Hakimullah Mehsud, the Emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban, Pakistan, who was believed to have been killed in a US drone attack. The video was posted on the Internet on May 2, 2010. The video is presented by MEMRI TV, and the transcript follows...

The following is the transcript of a video featuring Hakimullah Mehsud, the Emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, who was believed to have been killed in a US drone attack. The video was posted on the Internet on May 3, 2010. The video is presented by MEMRI TV, and the transcript f...

Following are excerpts from an Al-Jazeera TV report on an Afghan soldier who defected to the ranks of the Taliban. The report aired on April 12, 2010. Reporter: Finding refuge among the Taliban – this was the decision made by Afghan soldier Hijratullah Shams, whose two years o...

The following is a video of "Sayfullah Al-Amriki," a previously unknown American jihadi in the "German Taliban," a group active in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region that first surfaced in 2009. Sayfullah's statements are taken from a longer "German Taliban" video, titled "In the Na...

Following are excerpts from a news segment on female Pakistani anti-terror forces, which aired on LBC TV on March 4, 2010. Narrator: A female presence was imposed on the counter-terrorism security forces, in light of the deteriorating security in Pakistan, in order to provide ...

The following are excerpts from an interview with Sheik Sarraj Al-Zaharani, a former Saudi mujahid in Afghanistan. The interview aired on Al-Arabiya TV on February 19-26, 2010. Reporter: Sarraj Al-Zaharani, a mujahid in the past and a sheik and preacher today, stores in his ...

The following are excerpts from a TV report on local militias in Afghanistan, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 29, 2010. Reporter: Here, in Khost Province, in south-east Afghanistan, these fighters carry weapons that they bought with their own money, and operate with t...

On August 11, 2018, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization) released a statement saying it had driven the Islamic State (ISIS) out of several provinces of Afghanistan. It also accused ISIS of trying "to ingrain an alien ideology and rule over our believ...

On August 14, 2018, Pakistan's Independence Day, spokesman of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) Ustad Usama Mahmood released a 26-minute audio statement that was shared on a jihadi Telegram channel. The statement was titled: "Pakistan Is Ours." It is not clear whether th...

On August 11, 2018, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization) published on its English-language website an announcement from Muhammad Sohail Shaheen, spokesman of the Taliban's Qatar-based Political Office, saying that leaders from the Political Office h...

In the days leading up to August 8, 2018, a jihadi Telegram channel, created on July 12, 2018, by someone in Pakistan, had been publishing a series of images along with short statements completing the sentence "I want shari'a! Because..."
Given below are some of the images:
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August 6, 2018, a Telegram channel associated with Pakistan-backed jihadi group Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) asked in a post: "Is Islam a religion of peace?" The channel then posted an article in English answering this question.
Following are excerpts from the article:
"Isla...

On August 1, 2018, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization in the country) released a statement accusing the U.S. and Afghan forces of raiding educational and other institutions in Afghanistan, thereby violating the rules of war.
"On Wednesday 25th Jul...

On August 5, 2018, a Telegram channel associated with Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), the Pakistan-backed jihadi organization active in Jammu & Kashmir, posted a photo, graphically cut in the shape of India, showing a crowd of people holding Islamic flags. The image read: "The Islami...

In a document dated June 22, 2018, and shared on Justpaste.it, Al-Qaeda In The Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) paid tribute to the "martyrdom" of Maulana Fazlullah, former emir of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who was killed in a U.S. drone strike on June 13, 2018.
The unsi...

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On July 30, 2018, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001) ...

On July 25 and 28, 2018, Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization), released photos on Twitter of Taliban fighters training and riding horses in the Afghan provinces of Takhar and Baghlan.
Following are the images:
Afg...

On July 25, 2018, Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, emir of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan ("Movement of the Pakistani Taliban," TTP), released a video message in which he is accompanied by three other militant commanders.
The 15-minute video begins with Urdu couplets that read:
"W...

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization) released a report on civilian casualties in the country during the first six months of 2018, blaming a rise on the Afghanistan policy of U.S. President Donald Trump. Given below are excerpts from the report.
"58...

On July 22, 2018, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Afghan Taliban organization) issued a statement on its English-language website. Following are excerpts from the statement in the original English.
"We Have A Clear Message For These Infidel Forces; We Are Fully Co...

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan ("Movement of the Pakistani Taliban," TTP) has outlined its ideology in 23 points, which are summarized below. These points were written by Sheikh Khalid Haqqani, who is described as the assistant emir of the TTP.[1]
1. We, the mujahideen of the ...

In an editorial, a Pakistani newspaper raised concerns over how the Pakistani state has allowed leaders of outlawed jihadi organizations to contest the July 25 provincial and federal elections in Pakistan. Among these groups are the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) and Jamaatud Dawa...

On July 22, 2018, in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, a suicide bomber killed Ikramullah Gandapur, former provisional minister of agriculture for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and candidate in the July 25 polls for provincial assembly seat number PK-99 in Pakistan's Khyb...

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On June 28, 2018, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan ("Movement of the Pakistani Taliban," TTP) released a video on Telegram ...

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan ("Movement of the Pakistani Taliban," TTP) has released on Telegram a video delivering a fatwa ("Islamic decree") explaining why the Taliban fighters attack Pakistani army soldiers and officers.
Sheikh Abdur Rehman, judge of the TTP's departm...

According to an announcement made on the Facebook wall of Pakistani politician Asad Umar on July 17, 2018, Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil has extended support to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party of Imran Khan for the July 25 parliamentary elections.[1] On September 30, 2014...

On July 8, 2018, a speech competition was organized for the students of private schools in Pakistani Kashmir on the second anniversary of the death of Burhan Wani, a jihadi commander who was killed in Jammu & Kashmir by Indian security forces two years ago.
The Urdu da...

On July 14, 2018, the Urdu daily Roznama Siasat reported that the Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC), a network of Pakistan-based anti-India jihadi groups, has urged Pakistan to "land military in [Indian-]occupied Kashmir or aid the mujahideen" fighting for the independence of Kashmir...

LeT founder Hafiz Muhammad Saeed's son and son-in-law are contesting elections.
For the July 25 elections for the National Assembly (NA) of Pakistan, religious parties and militant groups through their proxy political parties are in the fray. Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) is the majo...

Umer Media, the broadcasting arm of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or the Pakistani Taliban), has released a fatwa addressing whether one should vote for Islamic scholars standing in the July 25 parliamentary elections in Pakistan. A fatwa is an Islamic legal opinion usually is...

On July 12, 2018, the Islamic State (ISIS) news agency A'maq reported that a day earlier the group had killed eight Philippine soldiers and wound 11 more during clashes in the Patikul region of Jolo Island in the southern Philippines. In a similar statement, ISIS in East Asia ref...

For the first time in possibly several years, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or the Pakistani Taliban) has released a major video showing its fighters undergoing training at an undisclosed location. The 40-minute video was shared on Telegram and other social media platforms...

On July 10, 2018, Muhammad Khurasani, the central spokesman of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed the killing during an election campaign in Peshawar the same night of Pakistani politician Haroon Bilour. At least 20 people were killed in the suicide attack.
Haroon B...

On July 9, 2018, The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization) released a statement just before the July 9-11, 2018 conference of Islamic scholars held in Saudi Arabia on the issue of peace in Afghanistan.
Following is the text of the statement:
"Those W...

On July 8, 2018, which was the second anniversary of the death of jihadi commander Burhan Wani, who was killed by Indian security forces in south Kashmir, protests were organized by secessionist groups such as Hurriyat Conference and jihadi groups such as Hizbul Mujahideen in Jam...

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization that ran the government of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 and was banished by the U.S. after the 9/11 attacks) has issued a statement rejecting media reports that describe it as an organization rather than a government.
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On June 28 and June 29, 2018, a Telegram channel published the following two-part "jihadi diaries." These diaries show two points: a clamour among some jihadis to free themselves from the clutches of Pakistani intelligence agencies; and a possible involvement of Pakistani intelli...

Introduction
On June 22, 2018, Indian security forces killed four terrorists in an operation in the Srigufara area of Anantnag district in Jammu & Kashmir. S.P. Vaid, director-general of the Police of Jammu & Kashmir, tweeted that the "terrorists [were] reportedly affi...

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization) has rejected media reports that its officials are engaged in peace negotiations with the Afghan government.
On June 26, 2018, Zabihullah Mujahid, one of the two key spokesmen of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanista...

On June 28, 2018, a message from Maulana Masood Azhar, emir of Pakistan-based jihadi group Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), was shared on a Telegram channel. The message argued that the jihad underway in the Kashmir Valley is "a sacred movement."
Following is the text of the messag...

On June 26, 2018, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization) released a statement critiquing the participation of Islamic scholars from Afghanistan and elsewhere in conferences sponsored by the U.S. on the issue of peace in Afghanistan.
Following is the ...

On June 23, 2018, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization) released on its English-language website a statement in response to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's argument that peace in Afghanistan can only be achieved in the presence of foreign troops....

On June 20, 2018, a Telegram channel posted a translated statement by Maulana Masood Azhar, the Pakistan-based emir of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), in which he says that "the Indian Muslims are with us." Masood Azhar quotes a hadith (a saying or action of Prophet Muhammad) according t...

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